The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Clustering in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Clustering over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clustering
Rank 101 126 179
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +53
Permanent jobs citing Clustering 131 98 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.451% 1.580% 0.577%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.365% 5.534% 1.947%
Number of salaries quoted 92 78 27
Average salary £38,000 £50,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.65%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1566 1771 1592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.30% 28.56% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1283 1453 1414
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Clustering across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire Clustering Jobs Demand Trend

Clustering
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Clustering across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Clustering Salary Trend

Clustering
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Clustering across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Berkshire Clustering Salary Histogram

Clustering
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Clustering within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +47 77 £35,750 -20.55% 2
Bracknell -26 17 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Maidenhead - 15 £38,750 - 1
Newbury +15 9 £42,500 -1.16%
Slough -18 2 £40,000 -11.11%
Clustering
South East

Clustering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Clustering also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Clustering.

1 248 (79.49%) Windows
2 191 (61.22%) SAN
3 169 (54.17%) Active Directory
4 112 (35.90%) Linux
5 106 (33.97%) Microsoft
6 102 (32.69%) SQL
7 98 (31.41%) Replication
8 94 (30.13%) MS Exchange
9 85 (27.24%) UNIX
10 83 (26.60%) Security Cleared
11 80 (25.64%) SC Cleared
12 75 (24.04%) Finance
12 75 (24.04%) Windows Server 2003
13 74 (23.72%) Telecoms
14 73 (23.40%) VMware
14 73 (23.40%) EMC
15 70 (22.44%) Retail
16 68 (21.79%) Windows Server 2008
16 68 (21.79%) High Availability
17 67 (21.47%) Fujitsu
18 66 (21.15%) German Language
19 65 (20.83%) MS Excel
19 65 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2003
20 64 (20.51%) Veritas
21 60 (19.23%) Oracle
22 58 (18.59%) ITIL
23 56 (17.95%) Solaris
23 56 (17.95%) Windows XP
24 54 (17.31%) C
25 53 (16.99%) Exchange Server 2010

Clustering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Clustering also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Clustering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (5.769%) Flash
1 18 (5.769%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (3.526%) .NET
3 6 (1.923%) J2EE
4 5 (1.603%) CSS
4 5 (1.603%) Servlets
4 5 (1.603%) XML
4 5 (1.603%) XSLT
4 5 (1.603%) LAMP
4 5 (1.603%) Hibernate
4 5 (1.603%) Lucene
4 5 (1.603%) Spring
4 5 (1.603%) HTML
4 5 (1.603%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.282%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.282%) Middleware
5 4 (1.282%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.282%) COM
6 3 (0.962%) Application Packaging
7 2 (0.641%) CPAN
Application Platforms
1 94 (30.13%) MS Exchange
2 65 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2003
3 53 (16.99%) Exchange Server 2010
4 49 (15.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 45 (14.42%) SharePoint
6 40 (12.82%) Live Communications Server
7 28 (8.974%) Lotus Domino
8 24 (7.692%) IIS
9 23 (7.372%) Tomcat
10 20 (6.410%) Apache
11 18 (5.769%) SAS
12 12 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (2.564%) WebLogic
14 7 (2.244%) Lync
15 6 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
16 5 (1.603%) Apache Solr
16 5 (1.603%) Exchange Server 5.5
16 5 (1.603%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (1.603%) WebLogic Portal
16 5 (1.603%) CMS
Applications
1 65 (20.83%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.282%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (0.641%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.321%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.321%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 191 (61.22%) SAN
2 39 (12.50%) NAS
3 24 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 24 (7.692%) Fibre Channel
4 22 (7.051%) DNS
5 21 (6.731%) iSCSI
6 20 (6.410%) LAN
6 20 (6.410%) WAN
7 19 (6.090%) SNMP
8 18 (5.769%) SSL
9 17 (5.449%) VPN
10 15 (4.808%) DHCP
10 15 (4.808%) Ethernet
10 15 (4.808%) ADSL
11 14 (4.487%) Internet
12 11 (3.526%) Firewall
12 11 (3.526%) Unified Communications
13 9 (2.885%) LDAP
13 9 (2.885%) HTTP
14 4 (1.282%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.78%) SQL Server
2 32 (10.26%) DB2
3 20 (6.410%) MySQL
4 18 (5.769%) Big Data
5 12 (3.846%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.923%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.923%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (1.603%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (1.603%) Jackrabbit
8 4 (1.282%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.962%) OLTP
9 3 (0.962%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (0.962%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (0.641%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (0.641%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.321%) Oracle 10g
11 1 (0.321%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.321%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 7 (2.244%) JIRA
2 5 (1.603%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (1.603%) Subversion
2 5 (1.603%) JProfiler
2 5 (1.603%) FishEye
3 4 (1.282%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.282%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (1.282%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.641%) Selenium
4 2 (0.641%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.641%) Ant
4 2 (0.641%) Gradle
4 2 (0.641%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.641%) Hudson
General
1 75 (24.04%) Finance
2 74 (23.72%) Telecoms
3 70 (22.44%) Retail
4 66 (21.15%) German Language
5 36 (11.54%) French Language
6 18 (5.769%) Spanish Language
7 11 (3.526%) Russian Language
8 9 (2.885%) Italian Language
9 7 (2.244%) Advertising
10 4 (1.282%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.962%) Banking
12 2 (0.641%) Local Government
13 1 (0.321%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 151 (48.40%) Support Engineer
2 99 (31.73%) Technical Support
3 83 (26.60%) Technical Engineer
4 82 (26.28%) Technical Support Engineer
5 66 (21.15%) Administrator
6 61 (19.55%) Systems Administrator
7 42 (13.46%) Technical Administrator
8 27 (8.654%) Security Engineer
9 26 (8.333%) Messaging Engineer
10 24 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
10 24 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
11 23 (7.372%) Software Engineer
12 20 (6.410%) Storage Support Engineer
13 19 (6.090%) Analyst
13 19 (6.090%) DBA
14 18 (5.769%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 17 (5.449%) SQL DBA
15 17 (5.449%) UNIX Support
15 17 (5.449%) Senior Security Engineer
16 16 (5.128%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 98 (31.41%) Replication
2 45 (14.42%) Blackberry
3 40 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (8.333%) CLARiiON
5 21 (6.731%) Symmetrix
6 18 (5.769%) Firmware
6 18 (5.769%) Device Driver
7 6 (1.923%) Open Source
8 5 (1.603%) Computer Science
9 4 (1.282%) HACMP
9 4 (1.282%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 3 (0.962%) LPAR
10 3 (0.962%) DLPAR
10 3 (0.962%) EqualLogic
10 3 (0.962%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.641%) Celerra
11 2 (0.641%) Wiki
12 1 (0.321%) Fat Client
12 1 (0.321%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.321%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 248 (79.49%) Windows
2 112 (35.90%) Linux
3 85 (27.24%) UNIX
4 75 (24.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 68 (21.79%) Windows Server 2008
6 56 (17.95%) Solaris
6 56 (17.95%) Windows XP
7 51 (16.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 40 (12.82%) AIX
9 33 (10.58%) HPUX
9 33 (10.58%) SUSE
10 18 (5.769%) FreeBSD
11 12 (3.846%) Windows 2000
11 12 (3.846%) Ubuntu
11 12 (3.846%) CentOS
12 8 (2.564%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (2.244%) Debian
14 4 (1.282%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.321%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (21.79%) High Availability
2 58 (18.59%) ITIL
3 40 (12.82%) Incident Management
4 23 (7.372%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (6.731%) Service Delivery
5 21 (6.731%) Data Protection
6 13 (4.167%) Time Management
7 11 (3.526%) Migration
8 9 (2.885%) Change Management
8 9 (2.885%) PRINCE2
8 9 (2.885%) Project Management
8 9 (2.885%) Performance Management
9 7 (2.244%) Configuration Management
10 6 (1.923%) PRINCE
10 6 (1.923%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (1.603%) Content Management
11 5 (1.603%) Multithreading
11 5 (1.603%) Refactoring
12 4 (1.282%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (1.282%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 102 (32.69%) SQL
2 54 (17.31%) C
3 35 (11.22%) Shell Script
4 26 (8.333%) C++
5 19 (6.090%) Perl
6 18 (5.769%) Embedded C
6 18 (5.769%) Embedded C++
7 17 (5.449%) T-SQL
8 15 (4.808%) Java
9 14 (4.487%) PHP
9 14 (4.487%) Bash shell
10 12 (3.846%) Ruby
11 11 (3.526%) Python
12 6 (1.923%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.603%) Groovy
13 5 (1.603%) JavaScript
14 4 (1.282%) Korn
15 2 (0.641%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.641%) VBScript
15 2 (0.641%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 83 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 80 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.769%) Degree
4 15 (4.808%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.487%) MCITP
6 12 (3.846%) MCSE
7 10 (3.205%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.244%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.923%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (1.603%) CCIA
11 4 (1.282%) CCEA
11 4 (1.282%) CCA
11 4 (1.282%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.962%) CCNA
12 3 (0.962%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.641%) CCNP
13 2 (0.641%) MCTS
13 2 (0.641%) CCEE
13 2 (0.641%) HP ASE
13 2 (0.641%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.372%) SLA
2 10 (3.205%) QA
3 7 (2.244%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.282%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 169 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 35 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (9.295%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 20 (6.410%) SRDF
5 18 (5.769%) VMware ESX
6 17 (5.449%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.205%) Oracle RAC
8 9 (2.885%) vSphere
9 7 (2.244%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 7 (2.244%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (1.923%) Terminal Server
11 5 (1.603%) ISA Server
11 5 (1.603%) XenApp
12 4 (1.282%) UAG
13 3 (0.962%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.962%) Xen
14 2 (0.641%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.641%) XenServer
14 2 (0.641%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.641%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 24 (7.692%) NetBackup
2 20 (6.410%) EMC TimeFinder
3 10 (3.205%) SCCM
3 10 (3.205%) SCOM
4 9 (2.885%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 6 (1.923%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (1.603%) Backup Exec
6 5 (1.603%) WSUS
7 4 (1.282%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (1.282%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 4 (1.282%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.962%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.641%) Nagios
9 2 (0.641%) YUM
9 2 (0.641%) Puppet
9 2 (0.641%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.321%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.321%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 106 (33.97%) Microsoft
2 73 (23.40%) EMC
2 73 (23.40%) VMware
3 67 (21.47%) Fujitsu
4 64 (20.51%) Veritas
5 60 (19.23%) Oracle
6 51 (16.35%) Red Hat
7 40 (12.82%) Sun
8 37 (11.86%) HP
8 37 (11.86%) Hitachi
9 34 (10.90%) Cisco
10 33 (10.58%) Dell
11 26 (8.333%) Sybase
11 26 (8.333%) Citrix
12 25 (8.013%) Symantec
13 20 (6.410%) StorageTek
14 13 (4.167%) McAfee
15 12 (3.846%) JBoss
16 10 (3.205%) NetApp
17 9 (2.885%) Lotus
Reading, Berkshire
Excellent understanding of the following: *Exchange 2003 and 2007/2010/2013 (particularly 2007/2010) and DAG experience *Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, 2012 *Active Directory, IIS...
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £36000 - £37000 per annum + + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
As part of a larger team of approximately 20 engineers the engineer will support the entire messaging system which is primarily based around Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (moving...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: Competitive salary on application
Posted: 12 June 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
They are currently looking for both Senior and junior embedded software engineers to work on various areas at the heart of their system using a mix of C...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £30,000 to £55,000 per annum 12.5% bonus, 7% pension + more
Posted: 12 June 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
Knowledge of other programming languages (mainly Python/PHP) would be a plus and Linux system administration as well... internet- Resilient with the ability to problem solve- Clear written...
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013